Bummer. I hadn't got to try it yet. I assumed it sounded OK from what Tony was saying. Is it the standard very robotic computer voice?

I would say it's three steps above my answering machine's voice, but certainly not as advanced as other TTS systems I've tried on my PC. I'm not sure if this is a limitation, or if they just don't want to ship flite with a very high quality voice so they can sell their commercial product instead, but it sure does sound robotic.

However, it does a very good job at analyzing sentence structure, inserting pauses, etc. In the example MP3, I didn't have to insert any words phonetically to make it sound right, or tell it where to pause in sentences, etc... I think it would do a good enough job that it would be useful in a variety of applications.